Source analysis

3 March 2015 Resources change. Habits change. Venues change. Societies change. So we adapt. “How do I cite a Facebook post?” is a question we hear frequently. When we answer it online we also see the inevitable ...

30 January 2014 When analyzing sources, the first question we ask ourselves should be: “Is this an original or a derivative?” However, this basic question is just a starting point for our evaluation of reliability. Some material falls clearly into one extreme or the other, but many resources fall somewhere on a sliding scale between those extremes.